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Minutes to Browse
Minutes listed by week and linked to the blog posts make it easy to browse for something that piques your interest. Scroll down, click, and get reading! |
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Week 39 - June 11 - June 15, 2018
Anne Frank and Her Diary
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Mr. Irving: Literary Adventurer
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A Brief Flicker of Glory
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Watch a Webmaster at Work
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Why Do We Have a School Summer Vacation?
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Week 38 - June 4 - June 8, 2018
Kidnapped!
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The Deadly Eruption of Mount St. Helens
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The Fish That Sees Red
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Proof Positive: Ballyhoo Confirms Safety of the Brooklyn Bridge
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Amazing Maize
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Week 37 - May 29 - June 1, 2018
Memorial Day - No Post
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Edmonia's Statues
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Taking the Fear Out of Revision
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Titanic - Not Enough Lifeboats
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America’s Unknown Soldier
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Week 36 - May 21 - May 25, 2018
Thomas Edison: Cutthroat Businessman
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The Real Life Legendary Trung Sisters of Ancient Vietnam
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How to Go From Being Wanted by the Police to Working For Them
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The Night Witches: Dangerous Women
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Memorial Day
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Week 35 - May 14 - May 18, 2018
"Ride, Sally, Ride!"
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Alex the Parrot, A Real Bird Brain
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Alberto Santos-Dumont
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Knot Garden
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Knight-Time Fun
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Week 34 - May 7 - May 11, 2018
Tecumseh, the "Shooting Star"
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The Birth and Growing Pains of the First National Park
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Do Animals Ask for Help?
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Doodlebugs: Evil Robots in the Skies
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Music That's Out of This World
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Week 33 - April 30 - May 4, 2018
Banging on the Ear Drum
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May Day
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Spaced Out
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How Old Are You...in Seconds?
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Cinco de Mayo
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Week 32 - April 23 - April 27, 2018
Here Come the Cicadas
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Earth's Emergency Heat Valve: The Hurricane
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World Penguin Day
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Bites of Passage
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Luke Skywatcher
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Week 31 - April 16 - April 20, 2018
Defining Weather, Global Warming, and Climate Change
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Climate Change: The Facts and Consequences
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The Big Deal in Mr. Peale's Museum
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In Your Great Grandmother’s Kitchen
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Every Day is Earth Day
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Week 30 - April 9 - April 13, 2018
Flat Paper Flight
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The Aristocrat and the Spy
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Meet Earth's Incredible Gliders
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Mary E. Lease, Queen of the Populist Tornado
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Happy Birthday Thomas Jefferson - Smuggler!
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Week 29 - April 2 - April 6, 2018 SPRING BREAK - Catch up on your Minute reading!
Week 28 - March 26 - March 30, 2018
A Man of His Word
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Everything Is Connected: The Butterfly and the Wolf
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How Did Building Bikes Help the Wright Brothers Invent the Airplane?
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Flower Power
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April Fool’s Day
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Week 27 - March 19 - March 23, 2018
Tick Tock: A Carpenter Solves an Ocean Riddle
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Caterpillars to the Rescue
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Tardigrades Make the Grade
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Row, Row, Row Your Boats
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How to Make Your Friends Think You're Super Strong
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Week 26 - March 12 - March 16, 2018
How the Composer Handel Used His Music To Help British Orphans
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Polly Wants a President
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Happy Pi Day!
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Mary Kingsley
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The Not-So Twins: Space Travel Discouraged
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Week 25 - March 5 - March 9, 2018
How Horses Revolutionized the Lives of the Plains Indians
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Code Talkers: Native Americans Come to the Rescue, But Why?
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The Magician of Iron
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Food Chain Poems
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Snakes on the Dinner Table! Life in a Sod House
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Week 24 - February 26 - March 2, 2018
The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
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Marian Anderson: A Singer's Victory
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Why is February Black History Month
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Shocking Fanny Wright
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Dr. Seuss Lives!
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Week 23 - February 19 - February 23, 2018
President's Day - No Post!
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Reviving the Olympics
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Isaac Newton’s Wonder Years
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George Washington's Hair
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"We Shall Overcome": The Power of a Song
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Week 22 - February 12 - February 16, 2018
Caught!
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Dr Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius
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Flu and the Constitution
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Sarah Keys Evans: An Early Pioneer for Justice
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Bessie Coleman
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Week 21 - February 5 - February 9, 2018
A Bouncing Ball Like You've Never Seen
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The Man Who Held Up Britain
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The Science Behind the Olympics
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A Renaissance Man—4,000 Years Before the Renaissance
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Taz in Big Trouble
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Week 20 - January 29 - February 2, 2018
Did the Hero Dog Survive?
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Marie Curie: An Elite Player in the Science Game
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The Architect Who Hated Straight Lines
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The Near-Death Experience of Football
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The Staley Swindle and the Super Bowl
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Week 19 - January 22 - January 26, 2018
A Transcontinental First
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Smelling Feet or Smelly Feet?
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Police Reports From the Sixteenth Century?
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Amazing Grace
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Victoria and Albert: The Royals Who Married for Love
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Week 18 - January 16 - January 19, 2018
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
No Post
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If the Earth Were a Button
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Splash!
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To the Ends of the Earth
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The Great Boston Molasses Flood
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Week 17 - January 8 - January 12, 2018
Dear Friend
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Morty Makes a Stink
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Damping Down Danger
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Why You Can’t Defrost a Salad...Yet
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Standing With Doctor King
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Week 16 - January 2 - January 5, 2018
Happy New Year!
No Post today
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Happy New Year--in August?
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Living in Caves to Survive the Siege of Vicksburg
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Take the Helicopter Pilot Challenge
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Renaissance Bad Boy
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Week 15 - December 18 - December 22
I Met a Man About A Parrot
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The Taste of Death
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Reading Has Gone to the Dogs
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The Flaw in the Seedless Banana
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Did Theodore Roosevelt Ban Christmas Trees?
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Week 14 - December 11 - December 15
The Story of Hanukkah
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Dickens' A Christmas Carol
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Percy the Cat
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What Can You Learn from a Holiday Light and a Glass Cup?
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Gong Farmers: Their Crop Was ...Crap
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Week 13 - December 4 - December 8
Ants in a Jam
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The Race for the Sky
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Toxic Armpits
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A Raindrop Quiz
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In Praise of Vultures
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Week 12 - November 27 - December 1
Lonesome George: The Face of Extinction
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The Wednesday Night Crush
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The Way Polar Bears Stay Warm Is Cool
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Mystery of the Blue Marble
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What's the Biggest Number?
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Week 11 - November 20 - 25 USA Thanksgiving Holiday Week - publish 21-22 only
The Mouse That Roared
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The Mystery of Alternating Nostrils
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Thanksgiving Break -- see you on Monday!
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Week 10 - November 13 - November 17
A Flight to Remember
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July, August, and Neronius?
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Hopping Ahead of Climate Change
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Young Frederick Grant Goes to War
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Are You as Smart as an Elephant?
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Week 9 - November 6 to November 10
Let’s Blow Up the King!
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Baking With Bugs: How to Write a Recipe
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How Skunks Play Fair
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Chimponaut: A Hero Forgotten and Remembered
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Renaissance Road Trips
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Week 8 - October 30 to November 3
Mary Makes a Monster
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Dracula: Even Scarier Than You Think
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Telling Your Story
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Rot Rocks!
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Move Over, Marco Polo!
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Week 7 - October 23 to October 27
How to Take an Elephant's Temperature
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The Princess Who Went Up a Tree
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The Painter Was a Slave
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The Unbreakable Secret Code: Kryptos
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Take a Turn at Turnip Carving
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Week 6 - October 16 to October 20
Lemuel's Bridge
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Some Painful Truth
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White House Friends With Fur and Feathers
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Musical Manias
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Vincent Van Gogh and the Case of the Severed Ear
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Week 5 - October 9 to October 13
Columbus Day - NO MINUTE!
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The Oldest Tree on Earth
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Rethinking Smokey Bear's Message
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Who Eats the Largest Jellyfish in the World?
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Tiny Frogs are Big News
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Week 4 - October 2 to October 6
How to Extinguish a Fire With a Bag of Potato Chips
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Animals in Space
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Keeping in Touch
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Sergeant Stubby
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Invasion of the Wolf Spiders
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Week 3 - September 25 to September 29
Earthquakes on the Mississippi?
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Roads Made of Water
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What's It Like, Being a Wolf?
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When a Jet Wore a Costume
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Alligator Smiles
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Week 2 - September 17 to September 22
Flying Into the Eye of a Storm
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The King's Butt
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Getting Your Head 3D Printed
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How Do You Become a Writer? Ask Charles Dickens
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No Shoes for You
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Week 1 - September 11 to September 14
Sept 11, 2001
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Hard Cracker for Hard Times
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How to Interview a Historic Building
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What Is a Light Year?
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Something's Rotten in Rome
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